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jim reed, bbc news. as we ve been hearing, the vaccine advisory body, jcvi, have said an additional booster dose should be offered to all adults 75 and the most vulnerable over 12s this spring. 0ur health correspondent anna collinson is here. this is all come quite suddenly. yes, thejcvi, our panel of expert scientists, the way the vaccine row that has worked over the pandemic is that has worked over the pandemic is that we hear from that has worked over the pandemic is that we hearfrom medicines regulator, who say whether a vaccine is safe and effective, and that the jcvi, it s up to them to look at how it would work and whether they should advise the government and chief medical officer on how it should be rolled out. and as you say, in the last hour, we ve heard from the jcvi say, in the last hour, we ve heard from thejcvi and have confirmed that there will be another spring booster dose for certain people. it
will be more than 8 million people who are most vulnerable to covid and the way it will work is that that those will follow on six months after their previous one. so a lot of people within that group of the last time what they will have had a dose would be around autumn time, so that protection they had would have started to wane, and so the concern is really to make sure that that group of people, the over 70 fives, care home residents and people who are aged over 12 who are immunosuppressed, to make sure they can top up their protection. the strike of the over 75s. 0n the other announcement from the jcvi was strike of the over 75s. 0n the other announcement from thejcvi was that there will be an autumn roll out. we didn t get loads of detail on that but they re hoping this initial move will carry those most vulnerable over to the autumn. bud will carry those most vulnerable over to the autumn. will carry those most vulnerable over to the autumn. and if nothing else, it tells over